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XIV. The Sale of the Birthright 80 XV. Jacob Secures the Blessing 89 XVI. Jacob's Dream 93 XVII. Jacob in Aramea 96 XVIII. Jacob Returns to Canaan 99 XIX. Joseph Sold into Slavery 104 XX. From Slave to Viceroy 109 XXI. Joseph Meets His Brothers 113 XXII. Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers 117 XXIII. The Death of Jacob and of Joseph 120   PART II   Israel Under the Leadership of Moses CHAPTER PAGE I. The Birth of Moses 127 II. Moses, the Friend of the Weak and the Oppressed 133 III. God Sends Moses to Save His People 135 IV. Moses' First Appearance before Pharaoh 140 V. The Plagues 145 VI. The Exodus 149 VII. Israel at the Red Sea 156 VIII. From the Red Sea to Sinai 160 IX. The Revelation 164 X. The Golden Calf 173 XI. The Tabernacle and its Service 183 XII. Trials of Moses and Israel in the Wilderness 190 XIII. The Spies 197 XIV. More Trials of Moses 201 XV. Israel Arrives at the Border of the Promised Land 209 XVI. The Death of Moses 216

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INTRODUCTION

Purpose of Manual. In recent years some attention has been given to the improvement of Jewish educational method so far as instruction in the Hebrew language is concerned, but the teaching of Biblical history, although it holds an important place in the curricula of our religious schools, has received relatively little attention from our educators, at least from those of orthodox and conservative tendencies. From the reform point of view some recent publications, though exhibiting the faults which all early efforts in any direction necessarily show, do mark a decided pedagogic advance on the older unmethodical way in which the subject was taught. But from the point of view of traditional Judaism they are inadequate, however helpful some of their pedagogic